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Aryan Memorial Temple and Raja Yoga College from the West. 



"Ye are not bound! the Soul of Things is sweet, 

The Heart of Being is celestial rest; 
Stronger than woe is will: that which was Good 

Doth pass to Better— Best" 

The Light of Asia. — Arnold. 



A NOSEGAY OF EVERLASTINGS 

FROM 

KATHERINE TINGLEVS 
GARDEN OF HELPFUL THOUGHTS 



Published by the Students of the Raja Yoga College, 
Point Loma, California, U. S. A., IQI4. 






Copyright, 1914 

By 

THE RAJA YOGA COLLEGE 

Point Loma, California. 



APR 20 1914 

©CI.A371446 



Dedicated to 

KATHERINE TINGLEY 

Wrth Love and Gratitude 



In their childhood and youth, in their young manhood and womanhood, she 
has been to her Raja Yoga Students, Teacher, Counselor, and Inspirer; ever 
aiding them to abandon whatever is unworthy, dishonorable, base and selfish; 
and ever seeking to evoke in them whatever is pure, true, brave and generous. 

These sayings have been garnered, with the hope that they may be preserved 
and spread broadcast; for they will help all who read them to eradicate the 
weeds from their own character-gardens, that the flowers may blossom with new 
fragrance and beauty. 

—THE GLEANERS. 



In the search for freedom, there is eternal alliance between man and nature, 
and the 'voice of sea and wind can shout the battle cry, as also they can sing 
the songs of peace, and whisper their dreams of the sunlit times to come. 

But the dreams which issue from the soul of nature are to great actions 
but the inspiration and the guide. We drink of the living waters of the imagina- 
tion only that we may be strengthened for the daily task, it may be for the daily 
drudgery, which is none the less divine, because it is of the earth. 

Katherine Tingley. 




Katherine Tingley opening the International Theosophical Peace Congress, Visingso, 

Sweden, June 23rd, 1913. 



"Time's glory is . . . 

To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light." 

Shakespeare. 



CULLED FROM 

KATHERINE TINGLEYS 
REPLY TO THE GRENNA CLERGYMEN 

OPEN-AIR THEATRE, VISINGSO, SWEDEN 
JUNE, 29, 1913 



THE members of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophi- 
cal Society do not come to interfere with your religion or 
your Government. We come not to destroy, but to build up; 
not to disintegrate or disharmonise, but to construct, to har- 
monise, and to cooperate with the best interests of your country 
— to bring Humanity to a closer recollection of its divinity 

and its God. 

$ * * * * 

Is it not true that just as long as there is one man or woman 
in the shadows, in despair — one mortal confined in prison and 
shut in from God's sunlight, from companionship and helpful- 
ness, that your country needs help? 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visings'6, June 2Q, 
W3) 



IF you would understand your Bible better, your Christ bet- 
ter, your God better, study Theosophy conscientiously. 

Nowhere can I find that Christ separated himself from Hu- 
manity; but on the contrary, he taught his disciples in substance 
that "Greater things than these shall ye do." Those marvelous 
teachings of forgiveness and wisdom that he presented, when 
interpreted theosophically, in their true light, give a new mean- 
ing to his life. 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen" Visings'6, June 29, 
'0*3) 

6 



SURELY those present who have been readers of comparative 
religion and have studied anything of history, do realize 
that there were great and mighty truths taught and lived by 
people of ancient civilizations far preceding the time of Christ. 
And this is said with all due respect to The Great Teacher. 

ifi Ip SjS 5jS !j{ 

It is a fact that in the course of time the true teachings of 
the Ancients became differentiated and lost their value in the 
same way Christ's teachings are now presented in different doc- 
trines. When we realize the differences there are in church 
principles throughout the world, we can see how easily the 
teachings of the Ancients have been abused by the degenerate 
methods of later years. 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visingso, June 2Q, 

7 



WE believe in Deity, the Great Unknowable, All-Powerful* 
Compassionate, Eternal Source of Light and Life. We 
believe that we are a part of God's Great Family, and that in 
this Great Universal Scheme of Life, all living things are in- 
cluded and not one is left out. 

***** 

We believe also that man is divine ; that he is a part of this 
Great Universal Life, and that as he lives in consonance with 
his Higher, Immortal Nature, close to those Ideals that have 
been handed down to us from the earliest history, close to those 
teachings that Christ presented to us, he is, in the truest sense, 
a Christian and a Theosophist. 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visingsb, June 2Q, 

8 



WE believe in the Higher and Lower Natures in man. We 
do not accept the idea that Satan is outside of ourselves, 
nor that Satan, in the dogmatic sense, is inside; but we do be- 
lieve that we possess two natures, — the lower, animal; and the 
Higher, the Divine, the Ego. 

We believe the latter is Immortal and is ever striving to 
bring us to a Higher State of Comprehension of the true 
nobility of Life and to a deeper devotion to truth and the prin- 
ciples of morality and the love of Humanity. 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visings'6, June 2Q, 
1913) 

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WE believe that we were born, not for a limited life of 
seventy-seven or one hundred years. Christ, the Great 
Initiate and the Great Theosophist, as we call him, we believe 
attained his spiritual perfectibility through many lives, and in 
the experience of each life developed the god-like spirit within 
him, and in this sense was truly the "Son of God". 

We also believe that Brotherhood is a fact in nature and 
that we must love our neighbors as ourselves. We believe that 
it is our religious duty to protest against error; but we are 
taught that we must always be sure that it is error against 
which we protest, before we begin. Possibly you will see that 
this statement has its application to the efforts of our opponents. 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visings'6, June 2Q, 
1913) 

10 



WE believe that the human body is the Temple of the liv- 
ing Soul, and that man must control and master and work 
with this body, that it may become pure and do its highest work 
as a body. Therefore, we abhor vice and anything that would 
destroy or interfere with the health of the body or the mind. 

We hold that a man cannot be true and pure and forceful 
on lines of real usefulness to Humanity if the body is misused, 
if it is not held as a Temple of the Soul — of the Christos Spirit 
within. 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visings'6, June 2Q, 

11 



WE know that the best results cannot be achieved in the 
ordinary educational systems, where the teacher and the 
children are only together a few hours daily; and that often 
there are adverse forces working in the home. 

The Raja Yoga system takes full control of the child. From 
night until morning and from morning until night, the child is 
under the influence of this system ; and so the great gap between 
the home and school is spanned. 

This is one of the basic features in our education, and it has 
tended to bring parents into closer harmony with the real needs 
of their children, and to bring about more true happiness for 
both parents and children. And so the child is afforded a cer- 
tain system of education that is not found elsewhere. 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visings'6, June 29, 
1913.) 

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WE hold that the lower nature should be an instrument in 
the hands of the higher forces of the Soul, the Immortal: 
and that the mind must become subservient to the Immortal 
Self ; that when we have this knowledge, then we shall have the 
key that opens the doors to the means by which we may rise to 
a higher state of purity and spirituality and thus be able to bet- 
ter serve humanity. My dear friends, is there anything very 
dreadful in this philosophy? 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visingso, June 29, 
1913-) 

13 



THEOSOPHY teaches that Brotherhood is a fact in Nature ; 
that we are all held together by the Divine, Immutable Laws 
governing human Life; and that it does not become us to have 
ill feeling or resentment, even towards our enemies. It teaches 
that the spirit of forgiveness must be in our hearts, and so let 
us separate here today, realizing that that Higher Law, which 
ever enfolds us in its keeping, must be sustained in true com- 
passion. 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visings'6, June 2Q, 

14 



LET us remember that all we have to do is to sound the 
depths of our natures and our hearts, and clear away from 
our minds the delusions and the mists that external life presents 
to us. 

Through Theosophy, through believing in Brotherhood, 
and through right living, let us know the truth, the whole truth, 
the Eternal Truth, and thus receive that illuminating light that 
should ever be the guide of all humankind. 



(From Katherine Tingley's "Reply to the Grenna Clergymen," Visings'6, June 2Q, 

15 




Raja Yoga Students leaving the Open-air Theatre after singing at one of the sessions 
of the International Theosophical Peace Congress, Visingso, Sweden. 



'A heart unspotted is not easily daunted." 

(2 Henry VI, Act Hi, Sc. i.) 



CULLED FROM 

KATHERINE TINGLEYS BRIEF ADDRESS 

OPEN-AIR THEATRE, VISINGSO 

LAKE VETTERN, SWEDEN 

Sunday, July 20, 1913 



ONE may ask: "How can we best help humanity? What 
talisman can we give it that it may move out of its unrest 
and despair to a path of reasonable content and happiness?" 

Theosophy gives answer and offers to the human mind a 
book of revelations of mighty truths that only need to be learned 
and lived to bring about a new order of ages. 

"Man, Know Thyself!" Listen to the voice of Theosophy: 
"Thou art dual in nature and holdest within thyself divine qual- 
ities on the one hand, and the lower passions and weaknesses 
on the other." 



(From Katherine Tingley's Brief Address at the Open-Air Theatre, Visings'6, 
Sweden, July 20, 191 3.) 

19 



LET man look within himself and study the mysteries of his 
own nature. When he does this, he learns of the mysteries 
of life, and can begin to work more understanding^ for the de- 
velopment of all that is noblest and best in himself. 

When an aspirant undertakes to live closer to the higher 
ideals that should ever be before him, he can then and there be 
like the wise man whom Jesus spoke of, "which built his house 
upon a rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and 
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for 
it was founded upon a rock. (Matthew, VII, 24-25.) 



(From Katherine Tingley's Brief Address at the Open- Air Theatre, Visingso, 
Sweden, July 20, 191 3.) 

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NOW in the world today we see a few men and women living 
their lives conscientiously and righteously. Such as these 
can meet the descending rains and floods of adversity with 
equanimity. With their motives pure and their lives clean and 
upright, they become living examples unto all. They have as- 
sumed their moral responsibilities and they are doing their duty 
to their fellows; and this leads to happiness. 

Can you not agree with me that there are not many such as 
these? But oh! How many there are who, unacquainted with 
the Higher Laws governing themselves, or with their divine 
natures, build their houses upon sand? 

Each chooses his path, — one to be sincere, noble, helpful, 
and godlike, the other to live in the house of pleasure, careless 



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and indifferent as to the opportunities before him, or his duty 
to his follow-men. 

So we have, side by side, happiness and misery, health and 
sickness, morality and immorality. Let those who are indiffer^ 
ent to the needs of their fellows and their own needs, look at this 
contrasting picture. 

It is indeed sad and even pathetic to see thousands of peo- 
ple daily moving on the downward path. Many of them we can 
say have not deliberately chosen this path, in a desire for wrong- 
doing; but the basic cause of much that we see, in this connec- 
tion, in suffering and vice and human weaknesses, can be at- 
tributed to the lack of knowledge that is necessary to bring the 
human mind to a realization of what life means. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Brief Address at the Open- Air Theatre, Visings'6, 
Sweden, July 20, 1913.) 

22 



NO man can make another good. One who endeavors to live 
righteously can point the way ; but the effort must be made 
by the one who expects to conquer. 

If Christ's simple teachings, so beautiful and inspiring, 
could have been rightly interpreted and lived by the whole 
human family during the hundreds of years preceding our time, 
what a glorious expression of divine life we should have among 
men — what happiness and peace there would be in human life !" 



(From Katherine Tingley's Brief Address: Open-Air Theatre, Visings'6, Lake 
Vettern, Sweden, July 20, 1913.) 

23 



IT is because of man's lack of knowledge of spiritual things, 
that Theosophists are ever endeavoring to uphold the sub- 
lime teachings of the Wisdom-Religion to discouraged human- 
ity; so that man may throw down his burdens of ignorance and 
despair, and live in the light. 

It requires great courage to be a Theosophist in some 
countries; because there are those who profess to be followers 
of Christ who are ever ready to place stumbling blocks in the 
way of those whom they cannot control. 

* * * * % 

Theosophists realize that to live one's life purely and nobly 
and unselfishly, one must enter the strait gate, "because strait 
is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and 
few there be that find it." (Matthew, VII, 14.) 



(From Katherine Tingley's Brief Address: Open- Air Theatre, Visingsb, Lake 
Vettern, Sweden, July 20, IQI3.) 

24 



LET us learn to be wise; to discriminate, to know the true 
from the false. Let us possess that wisdom which Christ 
suggests when he says: "Beware of false prophets, which come 
to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening 
wolves." (Matthew, VII, 15.) 

Let us remember that if we are to judge humanity at all, it 
must be done in a brotherly spirit, with that consideration that 
forever effaces from the human heart and mind animus and 
prejudice; for, "ye shall know them by their fruits." (Matthew, 
VII, 16.) 



(From Katherine Tingley's Brief Address: Open- Air Theatre, Visingsb, Lake 
Vettern, Sweden, July 20, 1913.) 

25 




A Group of Raja Yoga Students. 



"To wilful men 
The injuries that they themselves procure, 
Must be their schoolmasters." 

(King Lear, Act ii, Sc. 4.) 



CULLED FROM 

KATHERINE TINGLETS ADDRESS 

HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN 
August 12, 1913 



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I BELIEVE and so do all true Theosophists that Christianity 
holds the essential teachings of all religions. And more than 
that, from the beginning, from the very time that Madame Bla- 
vatsky brought this Ancient Wisdom (not hers), to the Western 
World, she declared that it was true Christianity. 

It is true Christianity; and so it is the mission of every true 
Theosophist to hold to the spirit of tolerance, to the belief in 
brotherly love, that we are all of God's Great Family, and that 
it is impossible for a true Christian who is a true Theosophist, 
or a Theosophist who is a true Christian, ever to condemn a 
brother. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12, IQ13.) 

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NOW if we really stop to think, if we consider the condition 
of the different countries today, and what undesirable 
aspects we have in all forms of society, we shall realize that this 
is not a Christian age. It is an age of prejudice and ignorance, 
though there are here and there, of course, some who have the 
true Christian spirit. But it is not a Christian age ; and Christi- 
anity, as taught by Jesus the Nazarene, has not yet, according to 
my philosophy and my experience, been truly interpreted. 

But if one takes Theosophy and studies it from its basic 
principles and attempts to live it, one gets so much nearer to the 
real Christian spirit that he is able to interpret the Bible in a new 
light, and thus he becomes better able to serve humanity. 



(From Katherine Ttngley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12, 191 3.) 

30 



THEOSOPHISTS hold that the Bible has not yet been fully 
interpreted; that the books of the Bible were written in 
different ages of the world's history when there were conditions 
that we do not have now; that many of the people whom Jesus 
taught were unlearned — unacquainted with the forms of speech 
that the Great Teacher used to his disciples. 

And so Jesus taught in parables to the multitude. Does 
he not say so? I am telling you nothing new. He talked to the 
multitude in symbols; but the real part, the spiritual part of the 
teachings of Christ, in all their dignity and amazing beauty 
awaits interpretation by the true Christian, by the true The- 
osophist. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingb&rg, Sweden, August 12, 1913.) 

31 



WHY do the members of the Universal Brotherhood and 
Theosophical Society work so strenuously in trying to 
bring people to this beautiful philosophy? Why do the teachers 
leave that beautiful Point Loma, where they can live and enjoy 
life in service, to go about from city to city, asking nothing from 
the public but its attention, never demanding a farthing for the 
teachings, never asking contributions to the building of churches 
or the paying of salaries to any of its preachers ; but on the con- 
trary, reaching out to Humanity, in the spirit of Brotherhood, 
giving freely, with a desire to uplift the burdens of the people? 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12, IQI3.) 

32 



IF humanity was as it should be in this Twentieth Century; if 
humanity had the real, simple, beautiful, inspiring teachings 
of Christ and real Christianity, there would be no need of preach- 
ing Theosophy to anyone; because all humanity would have it 
in its very blood. 

If Christianity were manifest today, as it should be, we 
should not have prisons, asylums, unnameable vices and degen- 
eracy to contend with. We should have a wonderful world, a 
wonderful human family, living in the light of duty, serving and 
working together as brothers, seeking spiritual perfection. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12 , IQ13.) 

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NOW it is the duty of one who believes in his Divine Nature, 
in the Higher Law, and in true Christianity, which is 
Theosophy, to be optimistic, courageous, trusting and ever for- 
giving; for the light of Theosophy, touching the mind, the heart 
and the life, makes man strong and purposeful ; it gives man con- 
fidence in himself and belief in a hereafter — belief in a wonder L 
ful past and belief in the Great Central Source of Life, from 
which he can draw strength according to his aspirations and his 
service to the human family. 

Is it not our duty to draw more closely to Truth, and when 
we do this, to do it in such a way, by working on lines of least 
resistance, that we harm no one, and interfere with no one's 
rights? 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12, 1913.) 

34 



I THINK the difficulty with many noble-minded aspiring peo- 
ple today is that they are unacquainted with the Science of 
Life. They have faith in a way; but my impression is that the 
more one places himself in a false position, perhaps uncon- 
sciously, the further away he naturally gets from the light of 
his ideals. And so, if we are to go through life on the faith that 
is presented to us, not the real faith that Christ spoke of, we 
must naturally, as a people go in the wrong direction — back- 
ward. This is something to think about. 

Is it possible that there is a human heart today absolutely} 
at peace with itself? Nay, I say; and I say it advisedly, nay. 
Not one human have I ever found who was absolutely at peace; 
— who possessed peace of mind, peace of soul — happiness. It 
does not exist. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12, 1913.) 

35 



ONE may have high ideals, and try to live up to them; one 
may try to serve humanity as best he can; but he has con- 
tinuously running through his life this fact; namely, that the 
more he serves and the more unselfishly he tries to labor, the 
more does memory bring to him the unpleasant pictures of the 
failures made consciously or unconsciously — of the mistakes, of 
the lost opportunities, oh! so many of them. 

Who of us can say we have not lost great opportunities? 
And when these memories come, when the stumbling-blocks are 
met by us in life, and we have only the Twentieth Century faith, 
we cannot be happy. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12, 1913.) 

36 



WE may have ideals, we may have the memory of our ser- 
vice, but we cannot have peace of mind if we are abso- 
lutely conscientious; because we know, if we think at all, and 
especially if we understand Theosophy, that our acts of omission 
and commission are telling along the broad path of humanity; 
and because we have failed others have failed; and because we 
have lost our way in the past others have also lost their way. 
Think! 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12, IQ/3.) 

37 



KNOWLEDGE: That is what humanity needs. That is 
what the old Teachers have said all down the ages: "Man, 
Know Thyself!" and that would be my message to the whole 
world, "Man, Know Thyself !" And how, in the name of Heaven, 
are we going to know ourselves if we are constantly agitating 
our minds in the wrong direction, pessimistically wondering, 
trying, experimenting, questioning, and trusting only in the 
brain-mind, and leaning on blind faith? 

We may listen to the dictates of conscience; but, when we 
stop to think, — what is the conscience of the Twentieth Century? 
Our consciences are not yet alive to the real meaning of life and 
the Higher Duty. Why? Because of our reliance on blind faith 
instead of knowledge. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12, 1913.) 

38 



IF we are to have true Christianity in human life; if we are to 
have true Brotherhood manifest in ourselves, we must have 
clearer consciences. We must feel the power of conscience in 
every act and every thought ; we must war with ourselves, so to 
speak — with the struggling lower self, that loves its ease and its 
pleasures, the temporary things of life, and often loses sight of 
the opposite. We must take a stand and begin to work for the 
redemption of human nature by redeeming ourselves. That is 
what Theosophy says. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Helsingborg, Sweden, August 12, IQI3.) 

39 



LET us begin to follow the path of knowledge and look upon 
life in even a more serious way than we have ever before, 
and remember that one moment lost may mean years of sorrow 
to ourselves and others ; that often one mistake, carelessly made, 

though unintentionally, may affect the destinies of nations 

When heart and mind are attuned, then the intellect be- 
comes clear and pure and strong and determined; then the soul, 
through the heart and conscience, steps out, so to speak, into 
more active life. Here we have Kingly Union, Raja Yoga — the 
Kingly Union of the spiritual, the mental, and the physical. . . . 
When Raja Yoga is universally applied then we shall have 
heroes and heroines, and statesmen who will illuminate the rec- 
ords of history through spiritual discernment and service. Then 
we shall have nations fired by the spirit of Brotherhood — nations 
united ! 



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in sight." — Hertha, Swinburne. 



CULLED FROM 

KATHERINE TINGLEY^ ADDRESS 

GRAND CONCERT HALL 

AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND 

AUGUST 15, 1913 



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THEOSOPHY is based upon the principle of Brotherhood. 
So the real spirit of brotherhood is what all true Theos- 
ophists are endeavoring to evoke in human life. We declare 
that if the spirit of true brotherhood were manifest in our na- 
tional and civic life, as well as in our international life, we 
should soon face a new order of the ages — something new and 
splendid for the upliftment and salvation of the people. At 
heart we all know that we are brothers; and if we stop to think 
we must also know that in the divine part of our natures we are 
not divided. But in our exterior life the spirit of brotherhood is 
not manifested to the extent that it should be. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 1$, IQ13.) 

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LET me ask you : Are there many people in the world who are 
really satisfied? — satisfied with their lives, or satisfied with 
the conditions that surround them? — satisfied with their civic 
and national life? I ask again: How many in truth are there? 
Surely not many, if any. 

It is my belief — the result of close observation and much ex- 
perience in dealing with human nature — that, if one declares 
himself satisfied, he is sleeping, so far as spiritual knowledge is 
concerned, — only half awake to the needs of his fellows, and 
separated from the real Inner Life by a false sense of certainty. 
He who follows this course may be said to be on the path of 
delusions, where, in the course of time, he will learn his lessons 
through bitter experiences; and later, in awakening, will realize 
his lost opportunities. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 191 3.) 

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THERE are numerous systems of thought in the world, but 
many of them are delusive, because they are based almost 
entirely on brain-mind efforts, though behind them there may be 
the truest motives. It is not enough in this world to have 
grand ideals: one must have the knowledge to apply these ideals 
to life. This is Spiritual Knowledge. 

The human family, if it could pause and turn its mind away 
from worldly interests and pleasures, even for a day, would, 
through that effort alone, take a new view of life and begin to 
move away from the psychological confusion of the age. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 191 3.) 

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NOT until men live as brothers, conscious of their essential 
Divinity, of their higher natures, can they feel the near- 
ness of that inspiration which should move every human heart. 
Because of this lack of insight, I presume to say that the human 
mind has not been able to fully interpret the real truths of Chris- 
tianity. Man, to know himself, must become a forceful ex- 
pression of the Divine Life in inner thought and outer action. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 1913.) 

46 



THE Raja Yoga system endeavors to fashion the lives of 
youth more in consonance with these higher principles of 
Christianity — which is Theosophy — that thus they may gain 
that power of self-control which enables them to avoid the 
temptations menacing all young lives. The Raja Yoga system 
is not an experiment. It has proven its power for many years 
past, and is pronounced a thorough success by all educationalists 
who are acquainted with it, though it was only inaugurated in 
the year 1900. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 1913.) 

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I DECLARE that if the older folk, the mothers and fathers, 
can become imbued with the teachings of Theosophy, they 
are not only fortified, but actually inspired to assist the youth. 

A tree is known by its fruit, and the Raja Yoga College at 
Point Loma, California, which was established thirteen years ago, 
is proving the theory that if youth is given from early childhood 
the opportunity to know and realize the duality of human 
nature — the Divine Higher Nature, which is immortal, and the 
lower, personal, animal nature, which is impermanent — then it 
is at least prepared through environment and example to meet 
life's battles with clear perception and courage. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, iq 1 3.) 

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I CANNOT help but say that we may organize and reorganize 
systems of thought and found societies and associations for 
the betterment of humanity; but these can do little permanent 
good, because there is lacking a universal system in the 
education of youth. I would not presume to make this state- 
ment, which I fancy many of my listeners will consider severe 
criticism, if it were not for my belief that the teachings of the 
Raja Yoga system, which are based on the principles of The- 
osophy, can alone meet the needs of the human family. 

It should be well understood that this system cannot be ap- 
plied to youth until the teachers themselves are not only stu- 
dents of Theosophy, but are living examples of it. With this 
picture before you it will be easier for you to understand my 
enthusiasm. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 1913.) 

49 



ATHEOSOPHIST, who believes in the essential Divinity of 
his nature, and also in its duality ; in the power of the Divine 
to overcome the lower self and to illuminate the mind, accepts 
naturally the doctrines of Karma and Reincarnation; and when 
these truths become a part of his life he is equipped for great 
victories. 

The world is cursed with too many doctrines and beliefs set 
forth in the name of religion, offered without that knowledge 
which Christ and the many great Teachers before him taught; 
that knowledge which comes from the Christos-spirit within. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 191 3.) 

50 



CAN you not picture the inspiration there is in having little 
children growing up under the Raja Yoga system, con- 
scious, to a degree at least, of their divine natures; not merely 
believing that they are divine, but knowing that they are; and 
being able to discriminate between the Higher Nature and 
the Lower? They have at so early an age that touch of 
knowledge, simple as it is, that works through the heart and 
mind and assists the beginning of the real life by self-control, 
by power of resistance to evil, by finding touches of the God- 
like spirit within. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, IQI3.) 

51 



ONE may ask: What are your hopes in connection with this 
teaching of Theosophy and the principles of the Raja 
Yoga system? I answer, it is that these teachings may be in- 
grained into the mind and heart of every human being; that 
they may become living ideals; and that all our fellows may 
acquire the power to adapt their lives to the teachings, and to 
make Theosophy, true Brotherhood, a living power in the world. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 1913.) 

52 



WE had, long before the teachings of Theosophy were met 
with in modern times, grand ideals; but alas! the key 
that opens the door to true practice had been lost. But when 
Theosophy, which is called the Wisdom-Religion, was brought 
again to Humanity by H. P. Blavatsky, nearly forty years ago, — 
for remember it is as old as the ages — then the great opportunity 
was offered again. 

"Man, know thyself!" It is indeed a poem and a sermon, 
an inspiration and a divine power, this sentence: "Man, know 
thyself !" The teachings of Theosophy engrave these words in 
every human life. I say: "Do not be satisfied with mere faith 
and the hope that is born of faith, but gain knowledge. Know 
thyself; become acquainted with thy Divinity, and follow the 
path of righteousness unafraid." 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 1913.) 

53 



IT is the power of the divine consciousness that we must arouse 
in human life before we can think rightly or live rightly or 
interpret the meaning of Christ's teachings, — the meaning of 
Brotherhood — before the peoples of the world can begin even to 
consider the true meaning of Peace. I mean real Peace, genuine 
Peace; that Peace that the heart of man craves; that indescrib- 
able touch of the spiritual life that affects all of us at our most 
optimistic moments. 

Yes, man is calling for and suffering for the want of this 
kind of Peace — Peace in the heart, in the mind, in the soul. 
Man may have the ideals, the aspirations, the ability, the genius ; 
but without that key of spiritual knowledge which Theosophy 
gives, Peace cannot be found. 



(From Katherine Ting ley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 191 3.) 

54 



MY pictures of man's possibilities are surely not too far- 
fetched or unbelievable. Why is it that there are not 
more true Theosophists in the world? Though the Universal 
Brotherhood and Theosophical Society is large, yet it seems 
only a small body of people in comparison with the millions of 
men and women who are indifferent to it. 

The reason why people who have become acquainted with 
even the simplest teachings of Theosophy do not all accept it, 
is that it demands something — new efforts, higher efforts, de- 
termined efforts. It exacts a clean, pure, unselfish life. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 19 13.) 

55 



THEOSOPHY teaches that human life as we know it, of sev- 
enty-five or one hundred years, is but one school among 
many schools for human development, and that man's worldly 
interests, which must be met in a sensible way, are not the 
greatest in the world: that many things that man considers his 
truest possessions or power are impermanent. 

It is easy to see that ideas such as these would not coincide 
with the aims of the great masses of people who live indifferent 
to spiritual things. Nor would they appeal to those who are 
satisfied with beliefs only. The worldly life is a selfish life; 
the spiritual life is an unselfish one. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, IQI3.) 

56 



IT is plain that those who are indifferent to spiritual things, 
who are satisfied with mere beliefs, live in a little world of 
their own, like a squirrel in a cage; and in spite of their hopes 
and prayers and touches of happiness they are held in a great 
ocean of pessimism and doubt. Think how many fall by the 
wayside who live in this self-made world! 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August /$, 191 3.) 

57 



THE human race is moving along two paths: on one are the 
optimists, on the other the pessimists. How often we see 
the latter, living in dread and fear! It is a common thing to 
find a certain class of humans beginning before they are fifty 
years old to think about death; to encourage the idea until it 
becomes powerful in the life, a real hypnotic power. Some old 
religious views which are almost obsolete now, have accentuated 
this, and one of the objects of Theosophy is to lift the veil and 
to let the timid, discouraged and pessimistic people see their 
possibilities and that there is Light ahead. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 191 3.) 

58 



I AM daring to look ahead, to bring a picture of future years 
closely to your attention — a picture of humanity no longer 
dreaming, no longer sleeping, but awake, aroused in the spiritual 
sense, living the true life, walking unafraid day by day with an 
affectionate devotion to duty and right action, and the whole 
world feeling a revelation of spiritual life. 

Surely Theosophy does lift the veil and open the way and 
point to the path of true endeavor. And more, it pictures noble 
possibilities for man. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, 1913.) 

59 



THERE should be no criticism for those who have failed 
along life's journey, for the cause can be readily discerned — 
ignorance, not real love of evil. How could humanity do better 
than it has done when it has not understood its responsibilities 
or its possibilities? It has scarcely acquired the power to discern 
the difference between the true and the counterfeit in human 
life. Poor humanity has had to endure, through lack of knowl- 
edge, impositions all along the way — impositions in the name 
of Christianity, and impositions in the name of Theosophy. I 
often meet the latter kind in my travels. 



(From Kathertne Tingley's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, IQI3.) 

60 



IF Jesus were to come among us he would give to the multitude 
the inner life of his teachings, and he would build for a great 
reformation. He would not only confirm the inner teachings 
that he put forth, which are the same as Theosophy, but he 
would attract the attention of the world in a new way to the 
grand doctrine of Reincarnation; for he himself was an inspir- 
ing example of what it is possible to achieve through repeated 
rebirths. He lived and suffered and passed through many 
schools of experience, many lives, but returned each time to 
live and work. He gained the power to be a living example, a 
true image of the Divine, through his many lives. And I be- 
lieve he would tell you now, as he told you then : "Greater things 
than these shall ye do." 



(From Katherine Tingle y's Address at Amsterdam, Holland, August 15, IQ13.) 

61 



GOOD friends, if you are inclined to take any suggestions 
from me, study Theosophy and make an effort to apply 
it in your lives. Ere long your influence will affect the great 
body politic and break down the barriers raised by brother 
against brother, and will bring together the hearts of men. It 
would unite them in grand purposes. Then we could hope for 
unity among the nations. God speed the time, I say! May 
the study of Theosophy lead all despairing hearts to the knowl- 
edge that shall purify human life and ennoble it! May all find 
that path that ultimately will lead to peace and happiness, not 
only for themselves, but for all their fellows! 



(Katherine Tingley's closing words in her address at Amsterdam, Holland, 
August 15, 191 3.) 

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THE grotesque ideas and teachings that have been presented, 
in the name of Theosophy, to the thinking minds of the age, 
are so numerous that one cannot recall them except by the very 
disastrous results that have followed. My mission, if I have 
any at all, particularly in public work, is to try to clear away, 
as much as possible, these false impressions, and to present to 
the public Theosophy pure and simple. 

Theosophy is the Science of Life. It opens the way for man 
to find his own divinity, and thus to know his possibilities. In 
doing this he naturally becomes acquainted with his own re- 
sponsibilities. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

65 



IF we look around us . . . we find marked divisions among the 
people. We know division exists also among the nations; 
and we further know that the many doctrines that are taught in 
the name of Truth are carrying human minds away from it; 
that the real or fundamental principles of religion, the essential 
teachings of all religions, which Theosophy endorses, are lost 
sight of in the forms and "isms" which surround them. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

66 



IF we are to attempt to correct any of the social difficulties of 
the day, we must as a body realize that we are essentially 
divine. We must realize it so truly and so thoroughly that it 
will be utterly impossible for us to move away from the divine 
part of our natures. 

We must learn these simple teachings of Theosophy: that 
man is dual ; that he is governed by the Universal Laws of Life ; 
that in his evolution he passes from one state or stage to an- 
other; and that in these experiences he has his opportunity to 
learn the real meaning of life. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

67 



NOW I wonder how many people there are today who are 
absolutely sure of themselves; who are so well balanced 
and so well equipped in the knowledge of the laws governing 
their own lives that they can stand out heroically and meet the 
difficulties of life, as they come, with courage and confidence, 
with absolute trust. I repeat, how many? Very few. 

According to my idea of Theosophy, the cause of this is 
that man is unacquainted with himself; ... he is eternally de- 
pending upon the intellectual and forgetting the higher part, 
the divine part, the intuitional part, the inspiring part of his 
nature. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept, 17, 1913.) 

68 



THIS Twentieth Century is, in my opinion, not an enlight- 
ened age at all. It is a prejudiced age, a time of change and 
transition, and extremes are meeting; and we have some very, 
very serious problems to contend with in our national, civic and 
social life. 

If we think at all, away from our egotism, and step out into 
the world with a determined will and see life as it is, we realize 
that unbrotherliness is the insanity of the age — unbrotherliness, 
that fearful, shocking and pathetic cause of separation that 
exists among men in the world today. It not only touches our 
public life but our personal lives; and of course it reaches our 
homes. . . . We need to have a universal religion; and if we 
had this we should have a universal system of education. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

69 



ACCORDING to what I perceive in my travels and from my 
study and my contact with human nature all over the 
world, I find that the human mind is psychologized by fear. I 
may shock some by making this statement, yet many of the 
greatest minds that I have known show a timidity and a lack 
of a certain quality of courage that is absolutely essential to 
one's noblest work. Alas! If we, as members of the human 
family, could only go on from day to day, from week to week, 
and year to year, unafraid! 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

70 



I CANNOT conceive how a human being can begin to go 
through life unafraid until he has some knowledge of his own 
nature and the majestic laws governing his life, — until he works 
in consonance every day and every hour with his higher, nobler 
nature — his Immortal Self. The mission of Theosophy is to 
bring to the human mind knowledge of man's essential Divinity 
— an interpretation of that wisdom which, in a very true sense, 
is older than the ages, far preceding the accepted time of the 
promulgation of the teachings of Jesus. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

71 



TO me, the thought of a child's coming into this world, 
except into the best environment and prepared conditions, 
is a most pathetic tragedy. This may seem far-fetched to you; 
but when I think of the young souls born into the atmosphere 
of human life as it is today, I declare it is pathetic. 

I believe that every mother should be removed from the 
pressure of every-day external conditions, which we know near- 
ly always surround the coming among us of a new life — away 
from the fevered unrest of the world, closer to Nature, where 
spiritual preparation could be made which would enable her to 
find the key to her possibilities as a Mother, and to learn to think 
and feel and love in a new way, in a broader, a deeper way, in 
order that she might better protect and guide the new-born life. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

72 



NOT until woman has higher knowledge — a better under- 
standing of her own nature and of her power to serve, — 
can the children have their best and rightful opportunities. . . . 
What assurance have we that young souls touching this plane 
of ours shall have their due opportunities? 

The mother-heart, we know, holds love and devotion and 
the spirit of self-sacrifice for her own ; and it is also to be found 
in the father's heart. But when a soul enters upon the arena of 
life, it is not of course the real "possession" of its mother and 
father. Besides, they have not yet gained that sure knowledge 
necessary to give it its best opportunities. And so, in the course 
of time, the child inevitably drifts into the great ocean of ignor- 
ance, unrest and suffering, which are the prevailing conditions 
of the present age. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

73 



I SAY again, it is a tragedy for a child to be born into the 
world under present conditions of human life. . . . False 
education, man's lack of knowledge of his own spiritual and 
mental heritage and of his possibilities, and those forces that 
are the result of the present-day mental confusion, — these hold 
and fetter the young soul and shut out its best opportunities. 

If we are to serve humanity rightly, really to do some things 
to lift its burdens, we must begin our preparatory and remedial 
work in the home. In this thought, is there not something new 
for parents to think about? 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

74 



HUMANITY must take a new view of marriage. Though 
the subject has been seriously studied all down the ages, 
yet rarely do we hear of a marriage that carries with it in after 
years that sacred atmosphere which should be there. And so, 
in viewing present-day marriages, one finds, if one thinks at all 
about this subject, that it is the lack of knowledge of the laws 
governing human nature, which brings about so many tragedies 
in home-life. So often are misfit temperaments and unsympa- 
thetic natures bound through delusion by the ties of marriage, 
while desire and passion are not infrequently cloaked in the 
garb of love. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

75 



TRUE it is, the parents of the present day have their grand 
ideals, their hopes, and their dreams and their prayers; but 
they have not the key to the problem. How can two souls on 
this plane expect to go through life, doing their fullest duty to 
the sacred obligation of marriage, when they are unacquainted 
with the divine laws that should fashion their lives, — when 
spiritual discrimination is sleeping? 

Humanity needs to be awakened to its dangers, — yes, and 
awakened to the knowledge of the Science of Life. 

The Science of Life is Theosophy. Let us clear the way 
for the coming generations; let us, through the knowledge that 
can be gained of ourselves, cultivate that quality of understand- 
ing that shall purify human nature and evolve soulful beings. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913) 

76 



IS my picture of the danger to the young far-fetched? Look 
at our youth on the streets! See the wrecks in society, in 
prison, everywhere; and then tell me if those who have erred 
and fallen and lost their way, have had their fullest opportun- 
ities! Oh! the pity of it! Wrecked homes! Divorces treading 
on the heels of divorces, and suicides, and all manner of crimes! 
And these are our progeny — the progeny of the Twentieth 
Century ! 

"How can these conditions be changed?" you may ask. 
Why, through man's becoming acquainted with himself, — with 
his real self. To gain self-knowledge, man must know and rea- 
lize his divinity; he must work in consonance with the nobler 
part of his nature. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913) 

77 



IN place of blind faith, let us have knowledge, in order that we 
may be able to face ourselves, our weaknesses, and to chal- 
lenge our Higher Natures, and gain that control over ourselves 
that will aid us in meeting understandingly the sorrows and dis- 
appointments and unbrotherliness of the age. When the Divine 
Light has touched our intellects, we then shall see; and in 
seeing, we shall realize ; and in realizing, we shall become. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 
Sept. 17, IQIS-) 

78 



THE mission of Theosophy is not to tell you that you can 
chase an astral orb and find your affinity; or recall a former 
incarnation and thus gain "power". No; the mission of The- 
osophy is to have you stand face to face with the serious facts of 
life and the serious problems that surround you; to sound the 
depths of your natures and find the Light. This you must do 
if you are to serve, and help lift the burdens of Humanity. 
Truly you must know yourselves: — "Man, Know Thyself!" 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

79 



THE negative quality in human nature predominates, and the 
Real Self, the Divine Self, is asleep. Human beings have 
their reasoning powers, and, as we know, many valuable attri- 
butes; but at the same time there is a woful lack of knowledge. 
One discovers this in all walks of life. Study the faces of the 
men and women that you pass every day on the streets. See the 
pessimistic lines of unrest and doubt and despair written there. 
Then, too, there are other marks that are painful and pathetic, 
and show the decadent tendencies of the age we live in. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

80 



WE must arouse our Divine Natures. How can it be done? 
I could never do it for you; even the greatest orator and 
the greatest Teacher of the world could not do this for you. 
You must do it for yourselves in your own individual ways. 
But, you can never reach the truths of Theosophy if you are 
timid and half-hearted, or if you attempt to bring these splendid 
truths down to your standard of thinking and living. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 
Sept. 17, 1913) 

81 



TO feel the fire of Theosophy, with its stimulating redemp- 
tive power in your lives, your minds must become as free 
and as receptive as the flowers are to the sunlight. You must 
awake to the glory of the morning, so to speak; search for the 
truth; begin to climb the mountains of Light; and by self-con- 
quest and perseverance in search of Truth, you shall reach the 
heights. Then, my beloved people, you will begin to know your- 
selves. That is the one essential thing: "Man, Know Thyself!" 
These words have a wonderful occult meaning. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

82 



IF one should reach the mountain-heights in trust, he never 
would be satisfied to remain there alone; he would long to 
have the whole world with him, and he too would work as do 
the few, — the members of the Universal Brotherhood and The- 
osophical Society, — for the redemption of humankind. 

He would work and work, because he had found the remedy 
that would lift the burdens of the world; he would become a 
noble example in effort, and he would be able to bear the search- 
light on his life and character at all times. He would endure 
persecution and abuse, because he would be, so to say, on the 
mountain-heights in his strength, in his soul-life, in his power, 
seeing humanity ultimately ascending through self-conquest, 
through real knowledge. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

83 



ONE cannot study Theosophy superficially or half-heartedly 
and then spend the best mental energy in merely discussing 
what he does not understand, without loss. In order to receive 
the full benefit and inspiration of the glorious teachings of 
Theosophy, one must apply them to his life; then Theosophy 
becomes simplicity itself. 

A child can be taught these simple truths and understand 
them. I have seen it done with very young children. . . . 
Truly it is beautiful to see the plastic and innocent mind of the 
youth responding to the teachings of Theosophy. And then to 
watch their growth and follow them from year to year in their 
efforts to overcome and gain knowledge, is inspiring. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

84 



THERE is another feature that comes before us in connec- 
tion with the influence of Theosophy on the mind of the 
young, — it is the attitude that the Raja Yoga students hold to- 
wards their studies. They do not meet them as a task, but as 
a pleasure; because in gaining self-control their minds are puri- 
fied and strengthened with the thoughts of the necessity of 
proper education — Raja Yoga. Indeed, they go to school as they 
go through life, — understandingly, as far as heredity and Karma 
will permit. 

Yes, the intellect of the youth, as of the adult, is the instru- 
ment of the soul, and must be truly cultivated in the very broad- 
est sense, free and open for the reception of the Light, — for the 
Glory of the Law to manifest in the life. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

85 



I AM often questioned why Theosophists are so optimistic; 
why so cheerful and able to meet difficulties in human life so 
courageously. I answer that it is because they have discovered 
hope and strength in Theosophy; also because they realize, to 
a degree at least, that they have sacred duties to carry out, if 
they are to find happiness; and so, in rendering service to hu- 
manity, they touch the well-spring of a better life. 



(From Katherlne Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

86 



I AM often asked why I leave beautiful Point Loma and the 
opportunities that I have in literary work and on other lines, 
and go out and talk to people, making new paths for persecu- 
tion and misunderstanding and misrepresentation. Why do I 
do it? 

Because I have in my heart this great, unspeakable joy, — 
this little knowledge, oh! so very little in comparison to what 
lies before me; but I have the knowledge that tells me that the 
teachings of Theosophy are true; that they are rational; that 
they are not far-fetched; that they are logical; and that they 
are the panacea for man's woes and ignorance ; and thus I would 
serve humanity. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 
Sept. 17, iqij.) 

87 



A SINCERE Theosophist meets death — or rebirth, as we call 
it — with a trust and a peace such as I have never seen in 
others. This is because Theosophy teaches that death is birth, 
— but a step into another school of experiences, where more 
knowledge can be gained and more service can be rendered. 

Can you not see, my good friends, that in this thought the 
sting of death is removed? If one takes the mind away from the 
outer aspect of this change, one finds relief and help; but at 
present humanity is psychologized with a grewsome, truly awful 
picture of death. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, I9I3-) 



WHAT a study is man! Is it not true that just when he is 
at a point of the possible understanding of himself and of 
the meaning of his life, he begins to burden himself with fears 
of death, and often counts himself as too old to take up any new 
study or make any new efforts for self-development after he is 
fifty? He lives so much in the thought of the nearness of death 
that he begins to economize and ever keeps before him a picture 
of poverty in old age! All his energy is spent in preparation 
for the change — Death, not Life. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 
Sept. 17, 1913) 

89 



A MIND burdened by psychological pictures of this kind, 
affects the very atoms of the blood with fear and trembling, 
and disintegration begins. Instead of looking upward, he looks 
downward; his shoulders droop; he bends his head and he 
pictures himself marching on to death; yet all the time the 
Higher Self, the Immortal Self, is ever urging him to self-preser- 
vation, to live out the full length of his life in consonance with 
Nature, and to walk unafraid. 

Alas! It is the psychology of the age that holds the human 
mind in bondage, in unrest and despair. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Brief Address: Open- Air Theatre, Visings'6, Lake 
Sept. 17, 1913) 

90 



BUT the Theosophical conception of death — how beautiful it 
is! A true Theosophist is always prepared for that change 
at the unexpected moment. He sees new opportunities ahead 
for the soul's growth; he can sit beside the dying bed and in 
sympathy go out in thought with the departing loved one to a 
new contemplation of love and joy. He views this release as a 
merciful expression of the Divine Law; and when the eyes are 
closed and the absence of the loved one is felt so keenly, he can 
hold himself in peace and trust, and lose the sense of grief in the 
peace of knowledge. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

91 



WE must live in the Light and in the knowledge of the Law, 
before we can meet death understandingly. Otherwise we 
shall go on in our present condition, temporizing with the law 
and our own weaknesses. We sob and we cry, and we put on 
our crape and black dresses. 

But are these things to gladden the departed soul? Nay, 
nay. 

We stay wrapped in our own selfish grief and loss; and the 
soul of our loved companion goes out to its new life alone. We 
forget the mercy of the Great Law; and not having the knowl- 
edge that explains these wonderful mysteries of life and death, 
we are selfishly shut in by our own mental confusion concern- 
ing the Great Change. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

92 



WITH this new view, when parting from your loved ones, 
you could love them in a new way and help them; go 
along the new way with them in thought, with the ever-inspir- 
ing knowledge that love is immortal, that love is eternal and 
that there is no real separation possible. How can a human 
mind doubt? How can it view this rebirth as a real separation? 
Is it not rational to believe that if the hearts and souls of men 
have been bound together by this Higher Law, this same Law 
will continue to hold them in its keeping. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 
Sept. 17, 1913) 

93 



BE assured, my friends, that in the great Cycle of Time, un- 
der the right conditions, we shall meet our own again. No 
power on earth or in Heaven, so to speak, can separate those 
who are bound with the true tie of love, — immortal love. We 
have not to think how it shall be, or when and where it shall be, 
— this re-union ; we have only to do our duty day by day in the 
truest sense, to lead the Theosophical life in the Now, in the 
ever-present Now, in the conscious knowledge of the Higher 
Law; and at the right time, under the right conditions, we truly, 
truly shall meet our own again. 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 
Sept. 17, I9I3-) 

94 



IT is your duty to meet the yearnings of your own hearts and 
find the Christos spirit touching your life, bringing "The 
Glory of God", so to speak, into your thoughts and acts. And is 
it not easy to see that you might thus catch, even in this life, 
a glimpse of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth? 



(From Katherine Tingley's address at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, Mass., U. S. 
Sept. 17, 1913.) 

95 



• * • •"- 




The Main Entrance to the Grounds of the International Theosophical Headquarters. 



"Here in this island ive arrived; and here 
Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit 
Than other princess' can, that have more time, 
For vainer hours and tutors not so careful." 

(The Tempest, Act i, Sc. 2.) 



CULLED FROM 

KATHERINE TINGLEYS ADDRESS 
TO HER STUDENTS 

ARYAN MEMORIAL TEMPLE 

International Theosophical Headquarters 

Point Loma, California 

September 28, 1913 



97 



THOSE who have striven the most, those who have studied 
Theosophy the most, and who love the work the most, and 
are ready to make the greatest sacrifices for it, have not yet 
taken in fully the sacredness of all that a Theosophical Life 
means. 

I know that when she (H. P. Blavatsky) began this Work, 
her first task was to gather her children together, — those with 
whom she had worked before, knowing that the impress of the 
old teachings was still with them, and that they only needed 
revivifying through the touch of a devotional life, a life of sac- 
rifice, to bring them together in a most superb unity. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Aryan Memorial Temple, 
Point Loma, Sept. 28, 1913.) 

99 



IN studying the possibilities of those whom she had gathered 
together, H. P. Blavatsky realized that they were nearer, 
perhaps much nearer, self-conquest than they dreamed, — more 
purified and possibly more crucified through their suffering in 
the world, and that if they would awaken under the inspiration 
of Theosophy, as it is now presented, with all the opportunities 
that are at hand, the whole world would be aroused. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Aryan Memorial Temple, 
Point Lema, California, Sept. 28, 1913.) 

100 



COULD you conceive that a true Teacher like H. P. Blavatsky 
or William Q. Judge would attempt to do just the ordinary 
things — just the pleasing, the entertaining things that would 
add to your blindness? Would you not expect a Teacher to 
offer such teachings for your guidance, that the heroic qualities 
of your natures might come forth? Would you not? 

Would you expect any system in the world to be like this 
system, or this system to be like any other? Would you not ask 
for something more, you true students of Theosophy? Would 
you wish to go on sleeping and temporizing with your own 
weaknesses ? 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Sept. 28, 191 3.) 

101 



I CANNOT understand how any student who has faced the 
glory of the sun from our beloved Lomaland, and shared in 
the beautiful nature-life here, who has looked into the faces of 
the faithful workers, and who calls himself a Theosophist, could 
ever fail in doing his whole duty to himself and to Humanity. 

I think if I were to take the testimony of some of our most 
successful students here, — those who have reached a point of 
self-conquest almost unbelievable, — they would say that their 
greatest strength they found in attending to the smallest rule, 
which the careless student would ignore as of no consequence. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Sept. 28, IQ13.) 

102 



LET us begin a new line of thought, so to speak, and realize 
the joy there is in overcoming obstacles. It is impossible 
for me to express in words the inner joy that it brings to me. 
To be sure, my brain questions, my brain wonders, and is dis- 
turbed, when I meet with attacks from the enemies of progress ; 
but oh! the unspeakable joy that comes to me when there are 
obstacles in the way! 

When the attacks are made, then I know that I have some- 
thing more to do. I know that they would not come if I had 
not the strength to meet them; so I am ready at any moment 
to push on and ever strive to sustain the ennobling teachings of 
Theosophy. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Sept. 28, 1913) 

103 



GIVE a man a chance to find himself. Do not remind him 
that he is a weakling, by discussing what he likes or does 
not like, or try to pave the way for him in his weaknesses, when 
you have not met your own weaknesses. 

When you try to do this, you are depriving him, so to speak, 
of the very opportunities that he needs to find himself, to gain 
self-mastery. . . . Remember, no matter where we go, we carry 
our burdens with us. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Sept. 28, 1913.) 

104 



REMEMBER that you have today an opportunity such as has 
never been yours before ; and so out of this sacred hour, let 
us learn some few lessons in self-control, in the real dignity of 
soul-life. . . . 

What more does a sane mind want, than the opportunity to 
overcome, to build, and to gain self-control? What a need there 
is among even our best Theosophists of endeavoring to overcome 
their smallest weaknesses, of crossing the bridge of delusions 
and reaching the real life! 

To live in the realities of life! That is what all students 
should aim to do. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Sept. 28, TQ/J.) 

105 



DO you not know, if you are living in the world of realities, 
in the inner world, in the real spiritual life, courageously 
and heroically, that those who are half-living, half-dying, those 
who stand timidly waiting and questioning, who have lost faith 
in human nature, will feel the force of your unity and of your 
purposes? 

That is what those who have come to us out of the world 
have felt. . . . They have felt something new; and now an ex- 
position must come from you, — it must come out of the united 
heart-life of all here — a fuller example of Theosophy truly lived. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Sept. 28, 1913.) 

106 



LET us study the inner meaning of our lives and our possi- 
bilities, and the inner meaning of Theosophy. Study its 
real application to your individual lives. 

Give your time to these efforts and you will have no time 
to temporize with your weaknesses, nor want to be placed in this 
position, or in that, because you do not think you are just fitted 
for the one you occupy, etc. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Sept. 28, IQI3) 

107 



EACH of us must find his true position on the easy path, be- 
cause I hold that the right path is the easy path. I do not 
like the talk about the other path — the path of eternal struggle 
and suffering. That idea opens the gate to no end of bad Karma. 
But the path to self-conquest is the easy path; — it is the royal 
path. What might you not have accomplished, if each of you 
had moved along that path with all your love from early child- 
hood? 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Sept. 28, 1913.) 

108 



ONCE during this meeting, I tried to picture in my mind 
what our revered H. P. Blavatsky would say if she were 
here. I know what she would feel ; but I wonder what she would 
say. It seems to me that she would say this: 

"The greatest tribute that you can pay to my memory is in 
noble service to Theosophy continuously. Let every day tell 
for itself the true purposes of your life. Make use of your time, 
for it is precious; and feel my love, feel my sympathy with all 
your efforts. Feel that inspiration that must come to you 
through the ideals which have been taught to you through The- 
osophy. Try to live the real life, the pure life, the unselfish life, 
the inspired life." 



(From Katherine Tingley's Talk to the Raja Yoga "Crusaders," Visings'6, Sweden, 
H. P. Blavatsky* 's Birthday Anniversary, 191 3.) 

109 



DO not gossip, do not criticise nor condemn your fellows; 
but rather, in all your association, seek that mental atti- 
tude which will bespeak the depths of your feelings, your devo- 
tion to principle, and your love of your fellowmen. 

I love to study your faces; they each tell their own story. 
In my contact with human nature, I sense the hidden weak- 
nesses, the insincerities of human life, as well as the high aspir- 
ations and endeavors ; and no one can dream how I suffer, when 
I see one drifting carelessly away from the true path of right 
action. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Talk to the Raja Yoga "Crusaders," on the train, 
enroute, Boston to San Diego, September 21, 1913.) 

110 



NOW let me say: Do not let little stumbling-blocks stand in 
your path. . . . Remember it is the small neglected points 
in connection with your duties that will mar your success. 

Remember too, that if you drop a single note in a melody, 
the whole piece of music is marred; and so it is in your lives. 
Perfect harmony cannot exist in your own lives if you allow 
yourselves to play even one false note. 

Self-mastery is gained through attention to the smallest 
weaknesses in oneself. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Talk to the Raja Yoga "Crusaders," on the train, 
Sept. 23, 1913.) 

Ill 



THE suggestions that I have given to you are of a kind that 
will assist you to broaden out your characters in such a way 
that when the time comes, you can reach out your hands to your 
fellows and lessen the bad Karma of others not so fortunate as 
yourselves. . . . 

Some day when I shall not be with you I feel that these sug- 
gestions of mine in correction, or in anticipation, of mistakes 
you might make, will tell greatly in your lives. The good seeds 
have been sown, and though you may not all have seen the 
meaning of them, you will in time, I assure you. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Talk to the Raja Yoga "Crusaders," on the train, 
Sept. 23, 1913.) 

112 



I FEEL that if the statesmen of the present time, those who 
have the power to adjust national and international affairs, 
would evoke within themselves those higher qualities that lie 
sleeping in them, there would come a revelation to the world. 
Their minds would become illuminated as though touched by 
light from the gods. They would awaken to their power, and 
through that power would act wisely, and so prepare the people 
of the world for a manifestation of the highest principles of 
justice. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Brief Address at the Reception to the Spanish Minister 
to the United States, Sr. Dn. Juan Riano y Gayangos, — Raja Yoga College, 
Point Loma, California, U. S. A., Sept. 27, 1913.) 

113 



SURELY we cannot dream of happiness and real peace in 
national and international life, until we have it in individual 
life, and vice versa; so that all men must reach down into the 
depths of their natures, challenge themselves and bring forth 
that dignity of character that belongs to the noble men of all ages. 
If this can be done, in the twinkling of an eye we shall have 
new and more humane laws and grand results. We shall have 
the power coming to the minds of the law-givers and the ex- 
ecutives and the leaders of men, to open a way whereby, through 
arbitration, there shall be wisely brought forth the means to 
stem the tide of disintegration, to eliminate war and in the course 
of time to bring a royal splendid Peace to all the people of the 
earth. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Talk to the Raja Yoga "Crusaders," on the train, 
Sept. 23, 1913.) 

114 



THE one great sorrow and horror of the world today is the 
lack of faith, even among the noblest minds — lack of faith 
in anything. 

Most men today are pessimistic and cynical. They have no 
faith in law, in humanity or government. They have no faith 
in themselves or in any system of thought. They are just floun- 
dering around like a ship without a rudder. They see the 
mountains beyond, and they see the blue sky; they dream and 
they half hope ; but in their general attitude (even in their physi- 
cal bearing) they show that some power has gone out of their 
lives. . . . Their minds are psychologized with a pessimism that 
is absolutely death-like. It is pitiful, pitiful. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Aryan Memorial Temple, 
Point Loma, Oct. 5, 1913.) 

115 



THERE is a class of reckless people in the world today in 
whom it seems as though the spiritual life was so asleep 
that it would take ages to arouse it, — a class of people who pass 
in the world as being honest, and fair, and successful, but who 
have made a world of their own — a fools' paradise. 

They have no faith in human nature ; they are cynical ; they 
have no trust in anything and so they are going "to get just as 
much out of this life as they can." They have no thought of 
the future, and are running to worse than materialism; because 
an honest materialist is often a very good man, a man of high 
purposes in life, who endeavors to help his fellows. 

It is mental degradation, where the spiritual forces seem to 
be shut off. 



(From Kather'ine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Oct. 5, 1913.) 

116 



IN the condition of the women today, there is a pathetic ex- 
expression of the world's sorrows. While men have their 
difficulties, and there will always be found some who have per- 
haps more than any woman ever had, still, take them as a body, 
the women seem to be carrying the burdens of the world. These 
facts I discerned in my recent travels in Europe. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Oct. 5, 1913.) 

117 



IF you, the members of the Universal Brotherhood and Theo- 
sophical Society, are to accomplish anything for the world's 
good, you must begin right here and get the weeds out of your 
own gardens — you must get closer to your own divine natures. 
You must be indifferent to results and just simply go on do- 
ing our duty from day to day. 

In this way those who are ready to accept Theosophy will 
find it, and in time all the burdens of the world will be lifted, 
even for those who, I am sure, cannot be touched by Theosophy, 
in this life; for, alas! they must learn more and suffer more. 
Yet by your efforts they may be helped from making worse 
Karma and they will feel your sympathy, and that glorious and 
sublime inspiration of brotherhood that will prepare them so 
splendidly for another life. . . . 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Oct. 5, 1913.) 

118 



1 BELIEVE that the whole body of the Universal Brother- 
hood and Theosophical Society is seriously affected on this 
psychological plane whenever anyone of you deteriorates or falls 
back. You are so knit together on these different planes that it 
is absolutely impossible for one of you to play a false note, so to 
speak, without its striking the hearts of those who may be suf- 
fering the most and aspiring the most. This is surely a lesson of 
lessons. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loina, Oct. 5, 1913.) 

119 



I CONSIDER that practically this Center here is the Spiritual 
"Hague" of the world, and that you are the real members of 
the true Spiritual Congress of Peace. I declare to you that if 
you have one-half the interest in Humanity that I have and try 
to hold it in your lives; and if you have one-half the faith in 
yourselves that I have in you, we shall be able to astonish the 
world with the sublime Truths of Theosophy. Our efforts will 
be so lofty, so forceful, and so adapted to the needs of humanity, 
that those who really wish for Universal Peace will recognize 
the power of this work. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address to her Students, Point Loma, Oct. 5, 191 3.) 

120 



I THINK that we have educated ourselves to the fact that law 
and order are very important factors in the building of char- 
acter and of home and national life, and that necessarily the ex- 
ponents of finite law must be educated on higher lines, in order 
to do justice to their profession. 

I have found in my study of human nature, and particularly 
of those who represent the common law, that among them 
sometimes we are surprised to find very wonderful exponents of 
the Higher Law, — the spiritual law — both intellectually and in 
action. Now in this fact we have a proof of the divinity of man ; 
we have also proof of the heart-life. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Reception to the California Bar Associ- 
tion, International Theosoi>hical Headquarters, Point Loma, Nov. 20, /Qij) 

121 



I CANNOT think of any profession that can better express the 
the justice of soul-life than that of the legal fraternity. It 
seems to me that those who hold this power in their hands, 
those who have been educated to represent the common law, 
have opened the first portal which leads to the teachings of the 
Higher Law. From this there must intuitively come to them a 
power that in the course of time will enable them to become real 
teachers of the people. 

I believe the time is approaching when the intuition of man 
will be more developed and more and more expressive; and 
then those who are the interpreters of the finite law will become 
the exponents of the Higher Law. In time they will also be- 
come the real statesmen of the Age, the law-makers, in a much 
higher sense than we dream of now. 



(From Katherine Tingley's Address at the Reception to the California Bar Associ- 
ation, International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Lonta, California, 
November 20, 191 3.) 

122 



MUSIC is often regarded as an amusement, a relaxation, and 
nothing more. At Point Loma it becomes a part of life it- 
self, and one of those subtle forces of nature which, rightly applied, 
calls into activity the divine powers of the soul. . . . There is 
held to be an immense correspondence between music on the 
one hand and thought and aspiration on the other; and only 
that deserves the name of music to which the noblest and purest 
aspirations are responsive. 

Katherine Tingley. 



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MUSIC is a part of the daily life at the International Theoso- 
phical Headquarters at Point Loma, not merely as an exer- 
cise which occupies its stated times and seasons, but as a principle 
which animates all the activities. . . . There is a science of con- 
sciousness, and into that science music can enter more largely 
than is usually supposed. A knowledge of the laws of life can 
be neither profound nor wide which thus neglects one of the 
most effective of all forces. 

Katherine Tingley. 



124 



MEN cannot be preached into compassion, nor sermonized into 
brotherly love, nor talked into love of justice. The virtues 
will not grow in the nature until the heart is touched, and the 
mystery-drama is the Teacher's magic wand. For all dramas 
which give us a true picture of the soul's experiences and a true 
interpretation of the Higher Law and of life's diviner aspects 
are mystery-dramas, whether written by Aeschylus, or Shake- 
speare, or some unknown dramatist past or to come. Life is 
the great Mystery, and in unveiling it, in the light of knowledge, 
the true drama has ever been, and will ever be, man's great in- 
structor. 

Katherine Tingle y. 



125 



WHILE the bells are ringing on the outer plane, calling men 
to a recognition of the New Time, the soft, silvery tones of 
the compassionate Heart of Life are sending forth their sweet 
music to the souls of men, calling them away from the paths of 
darkness, unrighteousness and despair, to the ever-abiding Glory 
of a Truer and Better Life, and the Hope and Peace of a new Day. 

Katherine Tingley. 



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